 | 1795 - 692 páginas
...and caverns, and the ghole* have been panic ftruck at one view. The fun never enlivened the values, nor had providence fixed bounds to its extent. The...the air fetid as the breath of dragons. Death dwelt m the waters, and poiion in the breeze.' — Vol. ip 114. In perilling the hiftory of the kings of... | |
 | 1796 - 614 páginas
...and caverns, and the * ghole have been panic-ftruck at one view. The fun never enlivened the vallics, nor had Providence fixed bounds to its extent. The grafs was tough as the teeth of ftrpents, and the air fetid as the breath of dragons. Death dux-It in the waters, and poifon in the... | |
 | 1829 - 602 páginas
...valleys, nor had Providence fixed bounds to their extent. The grass was tough as the teeth of serpents, and the air fetid as the breath of dragons. Death dwelt in the water, and poison in the breeze !" He here closing the book, and rising from his recumbent position... | |
 | Muḥammad Qāsim Hindū Shāh Astarābādī Firishtah - 1829 - 604 páginas
...that it should penetrate their depths. The very grass was tough and sharp as the fangs of serpents, and the air fetid as the breath of dragons. Death dwelt in the waters, and poison impregnated the breeze. After winding, weary and alarmed, through these dreadful labyrinths,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1829 - 606 páginas
...valleys, nor had Providence fixed bounds to their extent. The grass was tough as the teeth of serpents, and the air fetid as the breath of dragons. Death dwelt in the water, and poison in the breeze !" He here closing the book, and rising from his recumbent position... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1850 - 222 páginas
...wandering through gloomy defiles, where the very grass was tough and sharp as the fangs of serpents, and the air fetid as the breath of dragons. Death dwelt in the waters, poison impregnated the breeze." On one occasion, having halted at night, in a spot so rugged as to... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1879 - 770 páginas
...wandering through gloomy defiles, where the very grass was tough and sharp as the fangs of serpents, and the air fetid as the breath of dragons. Death dwelt in the waters, poison impregnated the breeze." On one occasion, having halted at night, in a spot so rugged as to... | |
 | C.A. Kincaid - 1994 - 200 páginas
...that it should penetrate their depths. The very grass was tough and sharp as the fange of serpents, and the air fetid as the breath of dragons. Death dwelt in the waters and poison impregnated the breeze." As we started I quoted the first sentence of this passage to the Diwan... | |
 | 1854 - 658 páginas
...valleys, nor had Providence fixed bounds to its extent ; the grass was tough as the teeth of serpents, and the air fetid as the breath of dragons. Death dwelt in the waters, and poison in the breeze." This is a fine piece of orientalism — I should say a perfect one, but for... | |
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Here the sun never enlivened with its splendour the vallies ; nor had Providence designed that it should penetrate their depths. The very grass was tough and sharp as the fangs of serpents, and the air fetid as the breath of dragons. Death dwelt in the... 